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21331. Meet the 16-year-old who’s made it his mission to stop the use of plastic straws
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- Aditya Mukarji, a student of Gurugram’s The Shri Ram School, is working to rid the world of single-use plastic. His door-to-door campaign led 150 restaurants and cafes in NCR to go plastic-free and averted the use of more than 26 million plastic straws.
- All single use plastic items, be it straws, bottles, wrappers, sachets, and other packaging material, are made from polypropylene, a material that can neither be degraded nor recycled easily. They keep piling up and have irreversible damaging effects on the environment. Among all these, plastic straws are a common sight in landfills, owing to the numbers used across the country.
- Aditya decided to act as soon as he realised the magnitude of the problem. The Class 11 student of The Shri Ram School, Gurugram, embarked on a door-to-door campaign in and around NCR to spread awareness about plastic, its detrimental impact, and eco-friendly alternatives.
21332. Pine Labs makes investment into Malaysia-based fintech company Fave
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- Pine Labs, the Noida-headquartered merchant commerce fintech company, has made an undisclosed investment into Malaysia-based fintech platform Fave.
- According to a press release, under the terms of the partnership, Fave’s QR code will become interoperable and integrated with Pine Lab’s point of sale terminals across South-East Asia.
- Both the fintech companies have their operations across South-East Asia. Pine Labs processes payments of $30 billion per year, and serves some 150,000 merchants across about 450,000 network points in India, South-East Asia, and the Middle-East.
21333. For the past 75 years, this old man has been teaching children under a tree free of cost
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- Nanda Prasty, from Jajpur, Odisha, has been conducting classes for children up to class 4, without fees, after which he urges them to join a primary school. The elderly have been proactive ever since the pandemic began and the subsequent lockdowns that were declared by making contributions, masks, sanitisers and PPE kits for the poor.
- Nanda Prasty, the man behind this noble gesture, hails from the Bartanda village and has been educating children in Jajpur. He takes classes up to class 4, after which he recommends they join a primary school to continue their education. In the evenings, he also takes classes for the elderly.
- “I used to work in the farmlands and saw that there were many people in our village who were illiterate. They were not even able to sign their names and could only do thumb impressions. I called them just to teach them how to sign but many showed interest and started to read the Bhagavad Gita. I now teach the great grandchildren of the students of my first batch,” Nanda told
21334. Retired Professor’s Plan Helps Make Entire Village Drought-Free in Just 2 Years
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Maharashtra
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- Ashok Sonawane, a retired professor from Nashik, digs trenches with the help of locals in Deshwandi village to make it tanker free. Ashok said things changed in 2018 when he was invited for the lecture on water conservation in Deshwandi.
- “A discussion started during the interaction with youngsters in the village, in which they expressed concern that the village was facing an extended drought,” he said.The educator said the students wondered how they could get into water conservation when the village received so little water, leaving the area bone dry.“I suggested there could be activities done around two hills that I passed during the visit. I also shared how trenches could get dug to allow rainwater to get stored in the belly of the ground,” Ashok added.
- After some discussions and another visit to the site, the retired professor and about a dozen youngsters teamed up to experiment with some rainwater harvesting initiatives.“Getting the permissions from the gram panchayat was the first hurdle. After much convincing, we got about 32 hectares of land to dig trenches around the village. The work began with some donations and contributions – like a digger and tools,” Ashok said.
21335. Meet the 11 startups from the 12th Batch of JioGenNext - the startup programme backed by Jio
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- On 20th July, 11 deep-tech startups started in the 12th cohort of JioGenNext Basecamp, a 3 months long mentoring programme backed by RIL that helps startups with product development, distribution and market access.
- These startups are building digital transformation products in the areas of Industrial and Consumer IoT, AR/VR, SaaS, Computer Vision, etc.
- The remote mentoring programme by JioGenNext, which chose these 11 startups from more than 800-plus applications it had received, will see startups undergoing intensive one-to-one mentoring, workshops and evaluation for proof-of-concepts in the Reliance ecosystem.
21336. Omidyar Network launches initiative to invest in solutions for MSMEs, migrants affected by COVID-19
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- Omidyar Network India, an investment firm focussed on social impact, on launched an initiative to invest in building solutions for MSMEs and migrant workers impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, earmarking funding between Rs 3.75 crore and Rs 15 crore per project.
- Through the 'ReSolve Initiative', Omidyar Network India seeks to create a portfolio of investments - selectively seeding new solutions or institutions and supporting investments with large demonstration effects, the company said in a statement.
- Omidyar Network India said the ReSolve initiative comes on the back of its recently-concluded 'Rapid Response Funding' initiative, which deployed Rs 10.75 crore to 67 proposals from across the country.
21337. कायम की मिसाल:अरुणाचल प्रदेश के एक कपल ने 16 बीघा जमीन दान कर आदर्श गांव की स्थापना की, यहां रहने की पूरी सुविधा देने के लिए पिछले 3 साल से कर रहे मेहनत
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- इस गांव में जल्दी ही ये कपल प्रेयर रूम भी बनवाएंगे। साथ ही गांव वासियों के लिए जंगल की लकड़ी का इंतजाम भी किया जा रहा है।
- इस कपल के बारे में जब अरूणाचल प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री पेमा खांडू को जानकारी मिली तो उन्होंने अपने टि्वटर अकाउंट के जरिये इन दोनों के काम की सराहना की
- इन दोनों ने मिलकर पहले यहां पक्की सड़क बनवाई। उसके बाद बच्चों के लिए पार्क और खेल का मैदान बनवाया। मिनली टैटो का कहना है कि उन्होंने यहां ड्रैनेज सिस्टम, पशुओं के रहने की पूरी व्यवस्था और नियोजित स्थान पर अनाज रखने का इंतजाम भी किया। इसके अलावा मॉडर्न टॉयलेट और बिजली का पर्याप्त प्रबंध किया ताकि यहां बसने वाले लोगों को हर सुविधा मिल सके। उसके बाद भी यहां कई काम करना बाकी है।
21338. Bengaluru startup IDSign announces formal launch of its brand & unveils its novel app
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- Bengaluru-based startup, IDSign, a new-age Verifiable Digital ID and Signing platform, today announced the formal launch of its brand and its novel & India’s first-ever mobile- based application.
- Incepted in 2018 and backed by the team with strong experience and expertise, IDSign aims at revolutionizing the way identity management, digital verification and digital signing are done in India.
- It is the first company in India accredited as ‘Certifying Authority’ by the Government of India, with mobile first approach. The company is led by the serial entrepreneur Mr. Naveen Chava.
21339. EdTech startup Bada Business touches 50 million entrepreneurs, MSME owners and students under its 'India Revival Mission'
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- Launched in April after a lockdown unleashed an economic crisis, the India Revival Mission proved to be a major shot in the arm for MSMEs across the country
- Under the initiative, top business coach Dr. Vivek Bindra offered business and skill training to small entrepreneurs to reinvent their businesses for a post COVID world
- Indian MSMEs created 3 Guinness World Records in online space
- The initiative received support from industry bigwigs and top govt. functionaries including Union MSME Minister Shri Nitin Gadkari and MoS Shri Kiren Rijeju
21340. 29-YO Doctor Quits Delhi Job & Moves to a Mountain Village to Serve the Neglected
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- Residents of Rakcham village, in Himachal Pradesh’s Kinnaur district, were happy about finally getting a doctor in October 2019 after months in their local Public Health Centre (PHC). But there were certain reservations. Dr Shilpa Kumar’s genuine efforts to make individual report cards for patients with diabetes and hypertension impressed the villagers, who were neglected till then. She focussed on people needing regular check-ups and minor trauma cases.
- After this wholehearted acceptance by 800 odd villagers, it did not feel right to leave the village and go home in Bengaluru during the nationwide lockdown in March owing to global COVID-19 pandemic.
- When cases were reported in the neighbouring village, Reckong Peo, Dr Shilpa started doing random checks on people not just in her village but also other villages from the Sangla block. At present, she has been temporarily transferred to Sangla due to lack of staff